NEW ZEALAND
The far-reaching wake of the waka
What makes a group of Dutch students so passionate about Māori culture that they travel halfway around the world each year to take part in Waitangi Day festivities?
PACIFIC
American Samoa in pictures
American Samoa is so far under the radar even well-travelled friends looked at me blankly when I told them where I was going.
MIDDLE EAST
Best Mideast stopover: Dubai or Oman?
Your long-haul flight is touching down in Dubai and you want to make a stopover of it – but do you stay in the United Arab Emirates or head to nearby Oman? Here’s my verdict.
ASIA
Against the odds: Surviving the Burma railroad
Seventy-five years after being conscripted into the Dutch East Army during World War II, a Northland man’s service – and his ordeal on the notorious Burma railroad – has finally been recognised.
CAUCASUS
Looking for Uncle Joe
Joseph Stalin is alive and well in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.
EUROPE
Inside the world’s second biggest wine cellar
The two biggest biggest wine cellars in the world are in … France? Italy? California’s Napa Valley? The former Soviet republic of Moldova? The answer might surprise you.
